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Download full textOzmantar, Mehmet Fatih; Roper, Tom – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper examines the role of scaffolding in the process of abstraction. An activity-theoretic approach to abstraction in context is taken. This examination is carried out with reference to verbal protocols of two 17 year-old students working together on a task connected to sketching the graph of |f|x|)|. Examination of the data suggests that…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods
